OK Still not running in 5.3 but I have discovered and removed one problem that messed with the arduino window as it opened . The ports and boards did not show up.

Now they do .

The answer was to chuck out the Java SFS and install JRE 1.6
The 5.3 Java SFS is missing something vital maybe
Maybe the java binary

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Nope that seems wrong too
When you click on Tools they all drop down but where the Boards should be is a line and where the Ports should be there is a line.

Moving the cursor to just below the lines reveals the missing titles but its intermittent so perhaps the Java SFS works and the fault is with the display of the Arduino window in both .0023 and Ver 1_________________Neither my Family nor my Property are Government issues. Governments should do what they were designed to do Manage the larger issues best done by Governments
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I have left both the DevX.sfs and Kernel.sfs loaded as a consequence of some trial & error hacks - probably not needed, although I did receive some errors when compiling <missing libmdp2.so> when they weren't available after a unsuccessful hack

Had to d/l "libmpc-0.8.2" from the repository.,got a message
Didn't get a message on "libmdp2" yet but that will probably pop up when I can get the compilation running.

First 3 downloaded and installed seemingly OK via pet
Fourth gcc-g++-4.5.3.tar.gz is a bugger
82.5 Mb takes a while but the xarchiver takes 3/4 of an hour to open it with the processors running at full speed . Have tried and had this trouble many times before. So I'm still trying to get this to compile .
The problem seems to be with the uncompressing of the tar.gz file
The xarchiver takes 1/2 an hour pluss at least to list up the files before you can extract them . Then when you do extract them it tells you it finished with one error but does not tell you what the error is ! I did this about 20 times so far with various download and file size problems but have finally got a successful start to compiling . It took 2hrs 10 minutes to compile !!
I started at 6am and wanted to get away by 8 but had to be here until - well it will be 11.30 now 5 & 1/2 hours

There also seems a likelyhood that only part of gcc-g++-4.5.3.tar.gz being needed . On the repos there are core files and branch files etc so maybe someone in the know might tell us what smaller file to download and compile or remove the compile requirement altogether.

On other versions I have compiled this takes about an hour . There must be a better way to get this file onto my system! maybe someone will write a ".pet" for it or something?

Geez I've wasted months on this . If it does not come soon I will discard 5.3 altogether -a difficult distro.

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Well now I ended up tinkering for another couple of hours and found that all versions of Arduino loaded up OK screenwise . That is 0022 , 0023 and the new Version 1.

However in all cases I got the message when I tried to compile a sketch "Cannot run program "avr-g++""No such file or Directory"

So that's the same problem I have had with all versions on Puppy 5.3
and I would bet it can't find the cross compiler. It is such a huge download and compilation that the "make install" installs it where it can't be found and that is the same with the last 4 releases of gcc.

Their install instructions are complicated in the extreme but I saw that it said unless you know what you are doing just use
./configure
make
make install

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However in all cases I got the message when I tried to compile a sketch "Cannot run program "avr-g++""No such file or Directory"

That is the last error i would receive before the gcc-g++ went in.

Suprised by the amount of time your pc takes to unpack the package: yes it is large - but even so should'nt take too long.....
I guess the error could have been a lack of space.
You mentioned you incresed the size to 500mb - did you mean your save file?

Are you trying another process on the extracted files: configure/make etc..I didn't do anything apart from ->

Ehh?
The package I downloaded was the source which required compiling hence the ./configure make make install process
I did not find it available in any other form. Did you?
From what you say you must have . Can you tell me what package you downloaded please and from where?

As I said it took 1/2 hour for the archiver to unpack and display the 82.5 Megabyte source file but that is all I found

however looking at the Arduino site I see this

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Requirements

You will need to install some programs to use Arduino under Linux (the way you do this depends on your distribution):

avr-gcc (aka "gcc-avr"), version 4.3.2 or later 4.3.x version (4.4.x and 4.5.x seem to have various problems)
Version 4.3.0 has a major bug which affects multiplication of long int's. This is the default version in Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10). Check using "avr-gcc --version" and upgrade if necessary.
Versions prior to 4.3.0 do not support the ATmega328 (which comes on the Arduino Duemilanove). People running distributions like Hardy Heron (Ubuntu) or Etch (Debian) and previous will need to upgrade their version of avr-gcc.

avr-gcc-c++ (Else you will get this error: Cannot run program "avr-g++":j ava.io.IOException:Error=2: No such file or directory)
avr-libc

So I went looking for the avr-gcc-c++ download and found an rpm from Fedora ,/root/Downloads/avr-gcc-c++-4.6.2-1.fc16.i686.rpm, and tried installing this but it still did not fix the problem

I downloaded a cross compiler next
cross-avr-gcc-c++-4.4.3-7mnb2.i586.rpm which I installed as well and I moved past the avr-g++ problem to another one and I am pursuing that atm

Well what a can of worms that turned out to be went after libcloog.so.0 then
libppl-c.so.2 and then
stdlib.h at which point it is obviously very messed up and thats the last full day or full minute I will ever spend on that again

DOES NOT RUN ON 5.3

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At this point I think you are having a lend of me .
The file you downloaded and extracted to /usr/bin/ is a source file which needs compiling so what you get if you did not compile it is a directory in /usr/bin called "gcc-4.5.3"

Inside that the files are extracted but they are not binaries they are "C" source files , ie they will not be found by the "Path" and will not run until compiled .

No offence meant but I don't think that file is contributing at all. Somehow or other you have a cross compiler loaded .
What is the name of your SFS file?

Have you any other files loaded in respect to this?

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Rebooted with devx_slack_530 (renamed from devx_531) in boot manager.

Perhaps this is the answer?
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Looks like he's done a runner now or at least gone to ground . Anybody else been able to get a successful install in 5.3 or 5.31?

Anybody else with any background knowledge ?
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OK thats good info but I'm not running 64 bit.
I see you now choose binary self installing slackware files to do the above
I find it interesting that
2) avr-gcc-4.5.3-x86_64-1sl.txz and
4) gcc-g++-4.5.2-x86_64-2.txz run together but then thats where my problems above come from

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Looks like he's done a runner now or at least gone to ground . Anybody else been able to get a successful install in 5.3 or 5.31?

Anybody else with any background knowledge ?
Was something missing in the devx_slack_5.3 SFS file? and fixed in 5.31 and nobody said anything?

Not much - Although I havn't compared them, I wouldn't think there are any differences - have you?

Perhaps you could advise on how are you running puppy - Full HDD install, frugal, other?
Do you start with a 'clean' OS on each attempt?
Are you still having errors whilst blindly following my instructions: Do you ever get the IDE up & compiling?

If you're looking for a concise explaination on how it works, then I do not have that level of experience - My primary goal was to have the Arduino IDE available - which I do

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There also seems a likelyhood that only part of gcc-g++-4.5.3.tar.gz being needed . On the repos there
are core files and branch files etc so maybe someone in the know might tell us what smaller file to download and compile or remove the compile requirement altogether.

From my haphazzard approach to reasearching this I found that it would be more appropiate to build the AVR toolchain seperate from the system files - This toolchain could, I believe, be built more effectivly using the gcc core & gcc++ et-al as you mentioned.
The 'uncompiled' gcc-g++ files 'somehow' complete the avr toolchain and are picked up when the assembler is called???

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